Yan Siqi raised his eyebrows slightly, and did not object, but only said to her: "Wear a piece of water." ”

"No, it's cumbersome."

Zheng Haizhu refused without hesitation. It's noon, the sea is hot, the shark repellent is scattered everywhere, there is no heat preservation and anti-bite, the shark skin water relies on this primitive and clumsy diving suit, she doesn't need it.

What she was wearing at the moment was a coarse cloth short jacket and pants that Wen Yuelan had begged for, which was the same as the outfit of the seaside salt worker, which was as easy and easy to wear.

She handed the chisel and wire to the strong man in the water, jumped off the fishing boat, swam with him to the mouth of the cave, and then asked, "Brothers, take the liberty of asking, which of you has been holding his breath in the water the longest?" ”

A swarthy thin man said, "I, my family used to be a pearl diver. ”

"Okay, you put this semicircle vertically, first stuff it into the underwater crack of the stone gate, and then use the gap between the stone bar and the stone slab, turn the chisel, let the wire slowly cover the stone bar, and then use your two fingers to poke into the crack of the stone slab and clamp the wire, drag it out, and tighten it here in the round hole of the chisel."

The thin man listened and looked at the tools carefully, and finally his eyes lit up, as if he suddenly woke up: "Miss Zheng wants to lift the stone bar through the stone slab?" ”

Zheng Haizhu said with a smile: "Exactly, this chisel is slender, just enough to pass through the stone cracks, and it can also allow us to poke the stone bars with our strength." ”

The thin man should say "understand", hold the chisel tightly, and plunge down with a fierce man.

Zheng Haizhu and the other two also buried their heads in the water from time to time to observe his underwater operations.

Due to the buoyancy of the water, after the wire is inserted, it is not easy to operate the direction, but fortunately, the descendants of this shellfish family, the fingers are very dexterous, and after tinkering for a while, the head of the wire is finally pulled out from the crack in the door, and the wire at the round hole of the chisel is screwed together.

With a "bang", he emerged from the water, and the sound of wire rubbing behind the stone door was also heard.

"Miss Zheng, it's tight." The thin man felt it and reported with confidence.

"Okay, you guys go up and pull the rope."

Zheng Haizhu pointed to a small protruding rock half a body tall from everyone.

The two men rushed up, caught the hemp rope thrown by the thin man's companion, and began to exert force. While they were pulling the rope, the thin man went to push one of the small stone doors, and so on for seven or eight rounds, when the thin man fished back the steel chisel and turned the pull into a thrust, he said with joy on his face: "It's moved!" The stone bar moved. ”

Zheng Haizhu grinned: "Chisel with a chisel." ”

"Okay."

The crowd pulled, pushed, and chiseled like this, and finally, in front of the stone gate flooded by the rising tide of the day, the stone strips behind the door were loosened.

With a few muffled sounds, the stone door was pushed open by the thin man, Zheng Haizhu sank into the water and stretched out his hand to touch it, and sure enough, there was a groove near the door.

The principle of blocking the door of this cave is the same as blocking the door with the "tap stone" card slot in the emperor's mausoleum, which cannot be pushed open by brute force, and it is necessary to find a way to get the stone bar out of the card slot.

The thin man, who had made a great achievement, couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly went to the rock crevice to pull out the fire and shine it into the cave......

A moment later, Yan Siqi and Mao Wenlong, who were on the fishing boat outside Sanzhang, saw several people swimming back from the entrance of the cave like cheerful ducks.

"Master Yan, box! Several boxes! ”

……

In the evening, in the Mazu Temple, not far from Xu Futing, there was green smoke.

Mao Wenlong sat on the stone steps at the door with a spring breeze on his face, looking at the red sun that was gradually sinking into the sea in the west, and his big mouth opened several times unconsciously.

A Liaodong soldier came out of the temple and asked Mao Wenlong with a smile: "Garrison, what is the origin of this Mazu Niangniang?" Why did the head of Diyan and the little lady give us money, and they have to go to this Bodhisattva temple to make a deed? ”

Mao Wenlong said: "Mazu was originally a woman from a fishing village in Fujian, who was guided by a master when she was young, proficient in the secret method of mysteries, and able to predict wind, rain, thunder and lightning, good fortune and evil. ”

Liaodongbing pouted and said: "Isn't that just a dancing god, the same as the shaman of the Jurchens." ”

Mao Wenlong made a tiger face and said: "Bah, nonsense, how can you compare Niangniang with the witch son of Jiannu." When Mazu Niangniang was still in the mortal world, she saved many villagers who fell into the sea, and finally died to save people. has accumulated great creation, went to the fairy world to be a concubine, and blessed all the people who traveled by sea. You stinky boy, kowtow to Mazu Niangniang, and beg Niangniang not to care about your buckteeth and talking nonsense. ”

The Liaodong soldiers hurriedly stuck out their tongues, knelt down and kowtowed a few times to the statues on the temple.

Another soldier said flatteringly: "As soon as the garrison said this, I understood that Na Yan was from Fujian and believed in Mazu, so he occupied a mountain and built a Mazu temple." That...... Let's rest assured, the promise made by Yan Dangjia in the Mazu Temple will not be renegated. ”

Mao Wenlong nodded, took out the silver ticket from his arms, looked left and right, and smiled at the Liaodong soldiers who surrounded him: "Damn, Lao Tzu went south this time, why is he so lucky, in just a few days, five hundred taels of gold are in hand, we can buy it, we can buy it......"

There are subordinates who are quick to settle accounts, and they hurriedly responded: "It is more than 5,000 taels of silver, and in Liaodong, you can buy 7,000 stone of miscellaneous grains." Or let's buy 3,000 stone of grain, and ask the Mongols for 30 good horses and 50 mules. We've made a fortune in the castle! The ancestral home of the garrison lord is Hangzhou, and this Jiangnan is really a blessed land for adults. ”

The Liaodong soldiers, who had kowtowed to Mazu before, stood up and continued to make fun with a saliva: "Garrison, that little lady surnamed Zheng is better than Mazu, this big sum of money, if you say give it to us, you will give it to us." ”

"Yes, she doesn't hold grudges, Lao Tzu is a rough person, and he didn't coax her much all the way," Mao Wenlong muttered, and slapped the Liaodong soldier's brain melon seeds: "Don't be a little girl, a little girl, people are a God of Wealth, and they will change their mouths to call Miss Zheng in the future." ”

"Huh? Garrison, shouldn't you call her Mrs. Yan? ”

"Lao Tzu doesn't know what's going on, you look at those two people, obviously eyebrows, but Yan Dangjia said that he is the two little ladies, and the brothers and sisters will be commensurate in the future, and he asked me to send her back to Songjiang Han's house."

……

At night, the cool breeze blows, and the autumn insects chirp.

Zheng Haizhu leaned on the table, pinched the gold coin in his hand, and played carefully.

On the obverse of the gold coin there are four large characters of "Yongle Tongbao", and on the reverse is the pattern of a five-petal plum blossom.

There are several flat and wish-like gold ingots on the desk, and there are also five-petal plum blossoms on the back.

In the stone cave opened in the daytime, eight iron boxes were hoisted out, although the boxes were not large, they were full of gold coins and gold ingots, and they were in good condition.

Yan Siqi's subordinates counted on the spot, and it was estimated according to the fineness of eighty-five points, and there were nearly three thousand taels of gold.

Zheng Haizhu was ecstatic and saw that many of the gold coins were engraved with "Yongle Tongbao", but he was stunned, because during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, it was more than 100 years earlier than the Jiajing period when Wang went straight to the sea.

After she escaped from the shark's mouth, she had decided to fully trust Yan Siqi, so she compiled the story of her ancestors who found her ancestors working as errands for Wang Zhi and recording treasure spots in the study of Longxi's hometown.

No, the gold coins that were actually dug up looked like they were of the wrong year.

Yan Siqi pointed to the plum blossom pattern and told her that it was the family crest of Oda Nobunaga, the overlord of the previous generation of Japan.

Wang Zhi's career as a maritime merchant and pirate had a lot of intersections with Japan, so although Japan's gold was a hundred times rarer than that of the Ming Dynasty, as long as Wang Zhi could afford silver, he could still exchange it for gold ingots and gold coins.

When Zheng Haizhu was distracted, Yan Siqi paced into the house.

Before he could sit down, he asked, "What about the wound on the leg?" ”

"Much better, no pus. Lang Zhong, the one called by the eldest brother, had already adjusted the medicine in the evening, and Yuelan helped me put it on. ”

"Well, that's good, Old Man Shao has excellent medical skills and has treated many Chinese businessmen in Hirado Port. Now that he is old and does not want to live in the Wa Kingdom, I will place him in Daishan, so that he can be closer to the Ming Dynasty. ”

Yan Siqi took a sip of the tea poured by Zheng Haizhu, and said: "The things have been loaded on the fortune ship, and I will transport them back to Hirado with the national aid tomorrow, so as not to have many dreams at night, so that the fleet next to the East China Sea will know, and I am afraid that I will come to rob it." You and Mao Wenlong are still taking a bird boat back to Songjiang. ”

Zheng Haizhu thought for a while and asked bluntly: "Brother Yan, I want to give three hundred taels of gold to General Mao, you go back to Pinghu, there will be no trouble, right?" ”

Yan Siqi understood that she was as thoughtful and smart as her, and she must have seen at noon that Li Dan's son Li Guozhu was quite dissatisfied with the distribution of treasures.

Yan Siqi's eyes flashed with a hint of the domineering spirit of the killers, and he said in a deep voice: "Daishan was occupied and reclaimed by me and the Li family, and all the affairs on the island have been in charge of me in the past few years. When I was exploring the cave and searching for treasure today, I asked Guozhu to be present, just because I thought I was above board and would not deceive his father. When I returned to Hirado, I would have made it clear to Master Li that although Daishan was in our possession, how would we know that there was such gold on the island without you? If General Mao hadn't dragged you here, this matter would not have been possible. You proposed to let our Hirado fleet take 1,500 taels, you take 800 taels, and Mao Wenlong take 500 taels, that is, as a woman, you have a broad bearing, and the men of the Li family have nothing to talk about. ”

Yan Siqi said this, paused, and changed his gentle tone: "However, I really didn't expect that Mao Wenlong would rob you recklessly, but you didn't care about your previous suspicions and offered to share so much gold with him, is it just because he is crooked and wants you to go to Daishan Island?" ”

Zheng Haizhuwaner: "Then I'll ask my eldest brother first, Mao is a frontier martial artist, and now he is not even a guerrilla, why do you want to make friends with him?" ”

Yan Siqi did not sell Guanzi, and said frankly: "Although Mao Wenlong is still a low-level martial artist, he was able to sell private goods to Li Rubai from Aiyang to Shenmi Island the year before last. I want to connect with him to the trade routes from the Wa Kingdom to Korea and southern Liaoning. ”

Zhang Chengyin is the current Liaodong General Army. Li Rubai's origin is even greater, and he is the second son of Li Chengliang, a warlord of Liaodong who has a thunderous name. After the death of his father and eldest brother, in the last years of Wanli, although Li Rubai was idle due to the struggle of the Ming Dynasty, the foundation of the Li family in the northeast was not comparable to the small-scale army commander in Guannei.

Zheng Haizhu stared at Yan Siqi, put away a faint smile, and said with a straight face: "Brother Yan didn't carry Li Dan and Mao Wenlong behind his back and steal those gold, not only out of morality, but also for long-term considerations.

In fact, my thinking is the same as yours. At this age, the Jurchen Nurhachi established the Jin Kingdom, which is reminiscent of the Jurchen leader Wanyan Aguta in the Great Song Dynasty.

I took my nephew to leave Longxi and go north to the south of the Yangtze River, and the Daming states and governments I saw along the way said that the guards were empty and the government was broken, and it was not serious.

Once the Jurchens enter the customs, I think that with the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, they may not be able to bear it. The alien race is surging and attacking, the society is overturned and collapsed, and the sorrow of the grass people can be imagined.

I hope in my heart that a bloody warrior like General Mao can have the money to buy horses and raise troops and defend the Hunhe River. ”

Yan Siqi listened and listened, and had to admit that the reasons for being "optimistic" about Mao Wenlong and Miss A Zhu were several layers higher than his reasons.

The woman in front of her is no longer the childish girl she was a few years ago.

Yan Siqi felt that the past ten hours had really been ups and downs, and he had gone from being stunned to losing a lot to gaining a lot.

Not only did he get the money that he could get from a long voyage to the sea trade in the past, but he also realized that he and Miss Ah Zhu, their respective worlds were no longer confined to the tailor shop and the deep house boudoir in the town.

Yesterday, when she showed her the dress she had sewn for several years, Miss Azhu did show a momentary expression, but after that, her words and deeds no longer meant the restraint between men and women, but like the maritime merchants who negotiated business between Hirado and Nanyang.

Zheng Haizhu didn't talk about Mao Wenlong anymore, but got up, went to the baggage to take out a few silver tickets, and handed them back to Yan Siqi.

"Brother Yan, after I came back, I thought about it, these eight hundred taels of gold can be exchanged for silver from Shandong Dengzhou Qianzhuang, and I will find a way to get it. The remaining 600 taels of gold, in the trench realm of Macao, for me, it is not easy to cash, I still put it in your hands, as the principal, to entrust you to run the sea. You set a small account, let's share the profits, how about it? ”

Yan Siqi was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and nodded: "You trust me so much, I'll plan it well." Six hundred taels of gold is not big, but it is not small, and it is enough to match some high-quality goods. ”

Zheng Haizhu immediately suggested: "There are many people in Songjiang Mansion who are officials in the imperial court and are well-informed. Last month, I heard from the old man of the Han family that the inner library of the East Garden in the Forbidden City of Beijing caught fire and burned badly. The things in the East Garden, if they are gold, silver and jade, are just that, and those incense medicines are stained with open flames, and there is no doubt that they are wasted. In autumn and winter, the first halls in the palace should smoke incense, and the annual festival rewards hundreds of officials also need incense. Brother Yan, should we go to Nanyang to get more incense? The tooth line of Yuegang should be willing to collect. ”

The Moon Port that Zheng Haizhu mentioned is a port where the two of them enter the sea in Zhangzhou's hometown.

The Ming Sea was banned for many years, and it was forced to switch the situation of all parties during the Longqing period, and then to Wanli time, the eastern coast has not only been an official form of tributary trade, but also in Fujian with Yuegang as the center, private sea ships have been able to carry goods and dock, but they need the official background of the tooth line to change hands.

Yan Siqi pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "Ah Zhu, you have a lot of good intentions for trading. I fled because I was guilty of sins in the past, and I was a little jealous of Yuegang. However, now there are more and more ships in hand, and it is indeed a pity to only go to the Wa Kingdom and the South Seas, and give up the trade of the Ming Dynasty. Okay, this time I'll ship spices to Moon Harbor to try. ”

The two talked about the future business, one depicted the sea situation, the other preached the business opportunities on the road, and the eyes met for a long time, which was no longer as embarrassing as yesterday.

After talking so happily for half an hour, Yan Siqi got up to say goodbye and told Zheng Haizhu to rest early.

Zheng Haizhu also stood up, walked to the screen, stared at the few paintings hanging on the wall, and asked, "Brother Yan, where is the landscape pavilion on this painting?" It's very beautiful. ”

Yan Siqi said disapprerovitically: "It's just a small mountain and a small courtyard painted by a Japanese painter, if you like it, you can bring it back to Songjiang." ”

"Then you're welcome, a few frames of ladies in the bedroom are also drawn by Japanese women, right? Can I take it with me too? ”

"Of course, go back and let Yuelan wrap it up for you."